This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

x86/xen: Fix xen head ELF annotations

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: x86-xen-fix-xen-head-elf-annotations.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 2582d3df95c76d3b686453baf90b64d57e87d1e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 21:43:35 -0500 Subject: x86/xen: Fix xen head ELF annotations

From: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com

commit 2582d3df95c76d3b686453baf90b64d57e87d1e8 upstream.

Mark the ends of the startup_xen and hypercall_page code sections.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: Boris Ostrovsky boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Cc: Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz Cc: Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3a80a394d30af43d9cefa1a29628c45ed8420c97.1505764066... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S +++ b/arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ENTRY(startup_xen) mov $init_thread_union+THREAD_SIZE, %_ASM_SP

jmp xen_start_kernel - +END(startup_xen) __FINIT #endif

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ ENTRY(hypercall_page) .type xen_hypercall_##n, @function; .size xen_hypercall_##n, 32 #include <asm/xen-hypercalls.h> #undef HYPERCALL - +END(hypercall_page) .popsection

ELFNOTE(Xen, XEN_ELFNOTE_GUEST_OS, .asciz "linux")

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jpoimboe@redhat.com are

queue-4.14/x86-asm-don-t-use-the-confusing-.ifeq-directive.patch queue-4.14/x86-boot-relocate-definition-of-the-initial-state-of-cr0.patch queue-4.14/objtool-don-t-report-end-of-section-error-after-an-empty-unwind-hint.patch queue-4.14/x86-xen-fix-xen-head-elf-annotations.patch queue-4.14/x86-head-fix-head-elf-function-annotations.patch queue-4.14/objtool-print-top-level-commands-on-incorrect-usage.patch queue-4.14/x86-unwind-rename-unwinder-config-options-to-config_unwinder_.patch queue-4.14/x86-head-add-unwind-hint-annotations.patch queue-4.14/x86-head-remove-unused-bad_address-code.patch queue-4.14/x86-xen-add-unwind-hint-annotations.patch queue-4.14/x86-head-remove-confusing-comment.patch queue-4.14/x86-unwinder-make-config_unwinder_orc-y-the-default-in-the-64-bit-defconfig.patch queue-4.14/x86-unwind-make-config_unwinder_orc-y-the-default-in-kconfig-for-64-bit.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-relocate-page-fault-error-codes-to-traps.h.patch queue-4.14/x86-boot-annotate-verify_cpu-as-a-callable-function.patch